Frederic 'Fred' Coffey, Jr., Denton, was a member of the President’s Council and an establishing donor of The Fred Coffey Scholarship and The Mark Graham Endowed Scholarship for Piano and Organ Students at UNT. He attended North Texas from 1948 to 1950, studying in the College of Arts and Sciences and serving as class president both years. He went on to complete his bachelor’s in economics at The University of Texas – Austin and earned a master’s in economics at Louisiana State University. After serving in the U.S. Marines, he had a distinguished career as a U.S. Foreign Service diplomat, directed the Voice of America broadcasting service’s Indonesia division and taught courses at National Defense University in Washington, D.C. Through the Organization of American States and Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, he served as an election monitor in a dozen nations before moving back to Denton in 2014. He was preceded in death by his father, Dr. Frederic Coffey (‘25).